Study on the functioning of judicial systems in the EU Member States : Facts and figures from the CEPEJ 2012 - 2014 evaluation exercise

The European Commission has requested the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe to conduct a study aimed at collecting and providing data on the functioning of judicial systems in the EU member states. This studyis based on the facts and figures collected, processed and analyzed by the CEPEJ according to its own methodology and it aims at providing objective, reliable and comparable information to be used by the European Commission in the “EU justice Scoreboard”. The methodology used for this report is fully based on the methodology used by the CEPEJ for its biennial evaluation cycles, using its "Scheme for evaluating judicial systems" to be filled by the CEPEJ’s national correspondents (often established within the ministries of justice), whose responses are statistically processed analyzed and validated by the scientific experts of the CEPEJ. Following the technical specifications provided by the European Commission, the study is structured in two main parts: the first part examines the judicial systems in the European Union member States providing data tables per indicator for the Member States, and the second part contains country fiches.